Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, George Humphrey holds a special place in the regard of Dwight Eisenhower. Since they first got to know each other well aboard the cruiser Helena returning from Korea after Ike's election, they have been close friends.
The telephone in the office of Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater jingled one morning last week with the kind of invitation that many a Republican on Capitol Hill will await breathlessly during the next year. Could the Senator have lunch that day with top members of the White House...
Varieties of Republicanism. Of the 21 G.O.P. seats in the U.S. Senate that are at stake in the 1958 election, less than half are held by men who fit Eisenhower's definition of Modern Republicanism. Ike would have no more misgivings about backing Barry Goldwater than a Democratic President...
In Britain, the plan, long known in outline and long discussed, met with sober approval. After Suez there was no use even pretending that Britain could act alone. "Realistic, sensible, and therefore drastic," said the Manchester Guardian. Politically minded Tories noted gratefully that the unpopular conscription might end just about...
Ominously, the News Chronicle's latest Gallup poll showed that if a general election were held now, 40% of those asked would vote Labor, only 31% Conservative. Never in recent years had Labor held such a lead. But the poll also logged a record number of "Don't...